Yowell, director of education grant-making at the MacArthur Foundation, in the Times interview.
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Since her retirement from professional sailing in February 2010 she has also founded the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to promote sustainability.
The MacArthur Foundation and industry leaders like Sony are launching a nationwide challenge to design compelling, freely available, science-related video games.
Munoz, 50, is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant for her work on immigration policy and civil rights.
Spruiell White of the MacArthur Foundation, which supports such efforts, describes an array of barriers, from poor literacy to poor health.
The intoxicating idea behind the MacArthur Foundation is that if at least temporarily relieved of money worries, geniuses can be more creative.
Last fall Roth snagged a MacArthur Foundation fellowship to pursue his work.
Nevertheless, the MacArthur Foundation found that those who were diagnosed mentally ill were no more violent than those who were not diagnosed mentally ill.
According to research by the MacArthur Foundation, 65 percent of students starting grade school today will end up doing jobs that have not yet been invented.
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Dulany put Machel together with the MacArthur Foundation, which became a primary funder of the Foundation for Community Development, the first and only grantmaking foundation in Mozambique.
He won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, has two honorary degrees, inspired a character in "Jurassic Park" and is curator of paleontology for the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collection in the world.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Caden Cotard, who starts off running a small theatre company in Schenectady, and, following a sumptuous grant from the MacArthur Foundation, ends up spending decades on an altogether grander project constructing a chunk of alternative city within New York, in which countless characters go about their scripted lives.
And we've done this, and this is why I got that award (the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant") was that we were the first group to identify an organism that comes from humans -- not dairy products -- that has demonstrable health benefits in both mice and in human cells, and we hope to someday give this to humans clinically to treat various indications.
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